If disasters get bad enough, they certainly become national-security threats and the National Guard is called in.

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come…

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite co…

I've heard people speculate that the growing American vogue for murder-suicides in the workplace has a certain tinge of the apocalypse.

But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are…

...obviously the Serbs had contingency plans, as every sane person knew. The US has contingency plans to invade Canada. Israel has contingency plans to expel P…

I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by …